The Truth About Blog Comments

As much as we all love the freedom that the internet provides us, it also breeds loudmouths with keyboard muscles. You spend an hour writing a blog post, some jackass spends 30 seconds glossing over it and bashing you. This image so perfectly represents an unfortunate minority of blog commenting:

Just something to keep in mind before you submit comments on any site; commenting negatively automatically discredits you. Instead, use a positive tone to voice your disagreement and provide a suitable solution or argument!

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Haha, funny image, but I agree with your thoughts. Assholes gonna asshole, can’t do much about it. I actually coded some user scripts to hide comments section on some of the pages I visit, it takes away the possibility of getting curious about comments and then being dragged into comments hell.

one really bad side effect to the internet still making its evolution into humanity is the rise of trolls. trolls, spam, just things that came into existence on a massive internet scale. and the whole time from the very first one, noone ever liked them. if u ever closed comments on any particular articles, we wouldnt be mad. most site owners or developers(your target demographic) want to participate through comments, but understand the troll intereference that happens sometimes.

It’s hard to really measure the impact of this, positive or negative, because I’ve been blogging so much less in recent years. My suspicion is that it has been a good thing, because feeling like you have to own what you say changes your behavior for the better.

Surprisingly, this did not eliminate manual comment spam. It just made it easier to deal with.

I’m curious if your opinion of blog comments would change if you didn’t allow anonymous comments.

If the world wasn’t full of Morons, internet would be so boring. There was a time when such people used to discourage me, and make me upset for a few hours per attack, but over the years I’ve realised, they just need to cut others “down” to their own size. When someone who has never written an article in a lifetime, attacks what you’ve written, it just reaffirms that you are at least one up. I used to block and delete such commentators, but now I actually highlight them. Makes for good fun :-)

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